Why is my Mozilla so damn slow?

I really like the Mozilla suite, Firebird and Thunderbird but one thing
for these is common. They all work so damn slow on my computers. I have
one PII-400, 192RAM and WinXP (I have tried it with win2k also) and one
PII-375, 512RAM and MDK 9.2rc2. Using Mozilla 1.4 now but I have tried
almost every 1.x version berfore 1.4.

Mozilla starts up so slowly that I can't stand it. So I'm using Firebird
for surfing. When I move the cursor through the Bookmark olders , the
folders open about 1sec after In Opera and Konqueror they open
immediately.

Firebird is really speedy but its menus feels just as sticky as Mozillas

Now I'm using Mozilla Composer in MDK when I'm updating my webpages but
the GUI is so sticky and slow. It feels almost like I had chewinggum
sticked to my mouse. I have checked that also This is mostly when I
use drag n' drop to move text.

Can I do something to get it working like other apps? Opera's menus are
really quick in both Win and Lin.

 

Jukka

Does your system meet the minimum requirements for Mozilla?
Operating system Windows 98 Second Edition
Windows Millennium Edition
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Processor Pentium 233 MHz (or faster)
RAM 64 MB
Free hard disk space^†
<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/guide/get-started.html#note-freedisk>
26 MB


Are you running any other programs in the background?

Are you sharing the same profile between Mozilla and
Firebird/Thunderbird? if so, dont. Use separate profiles for each
Take a look at your bookmarks file, is it of a large size? This is the
result of sharing profiles.

Create a new profile for each, and use them exclusively with that program
If the speed improves greatly with the new profile, then you have found
the problem.

 

Yup my system meets those requirements.

Yup I'm running programs in the background but I have them running when
I'm using Opera too but that doesn't seem to complain. I have tried
Konqueror in Linux too and it seems to be speedy.

It seems to be using different profiles. One for Mozilla and one for
Phoenix. My bookamarks.html was just 40Kb so it wasn't that big.

I haven't found the right medicine yet

 

Have you tried a new profile?